E/C.12/1/Add.72 page 4 E. Suggestions and recommendations 21. The Committee requests the State party to provide information in its third periodic report on: the results of the implementation of the framework law to combat social exclusion; the results of the national action plan to combat domestic violence; and the results of the campaign against alcohol and tobacco abuse. 22. The Committee strongly encourages the State party to criminalize trafficking in persons. 23. The Committee recommends that the State party provide proper training to the judiciary, prosecutors and other officials responsible for the implementation of the Covenant and its rights, to ensure that these rights are consistently enforced in courts of law. 24. The Committee recommends that the State party increase its ODA as a percentage of GNP to a level approaching the 0.7 per cent goal established by the United Nations. 25. The Committee suggests that the State party review its position with regard to minorities, ensuring that minority groups have the right to exist and to be protected as such in the State party. The Committee recommends that the State party withdraw its reservation with regard to article 27 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and that it ratify the Council of Europe Framework Convention on the Protection of National Minorities, as well as the European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages. 26. The Committee also recommends that the State party increase its efforts to preserve regional and minority cultures and languages, and that it undertake measures to improve education on, and education in, these languages. 27. The Committee recommends that the legal minimum age for marriage for girls be raised to 18 years of age. 28. The Committee recommends that the State party undertake urgent steps to address the problem of job insecurity, as well as the serious problem of suicides related to it. The Committee requests that the State party include information in its third periodic report on the project of the Ministry of Labour which addresses as a matter of priority the reduction of the number of suicides among the population of working age and the provision of assistance to families of suicide victims. 29. The Committee recommends that the State party ensure that the criteria of participation and, in particular, the condition of “representativity” do not impede the right of trade unions to participate freely in processes such as collective bargaining, irrespective of their size, in accordance with article 8 (c) of the Covenant. 30. The Committee strongly recommends that the State party ratify ILO Conventions No. 117 on Social Policy (Basic Aims and Standards) and No. 174 on the Prevention of Major Industrial Accidents.